The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 112, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 12, 1957 Page: 10 of 14
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Around the Square-* *
Chamber of Commerce Manager Jim
Anderson's remarks to his directors last
week about the most pressing needs of
Sulphur Springs are worth special note be-
cause of their timely nature.
AH three of the subjects mentioned in
the talk—a more adequate airport, mod-
ern hotel or motel facilities and improve-
ment of the appearance of the downtown
district — have been discussed frequently
before.
The particular emphasis given them
at the Chamber of Commerce meeting was
as prerequisites of any reasonable hope
for future industrial development of Sul-
phur Springs.
Residents of any city tend to get
into the familiar position of being un-
able to see the forest for the trees. They
get so accustomed to both the assets
and liabilities of their home town that
they tend to minimise both. Habit and
tolerance work especially to close their
eyes to the more unfavorable conditions
that exist.
An outsider coming into a community
for the first time suffers from no such re-
strictions of viewpoint. This is particu-
larly true if he has a purpose in his ap-
praisal. The things which the home town-
ers take for granted stand out like sore
thumbs in the eyes of a man who is siz-
ing up a town as a place in which to lo-
cate a business or even as a future home-
site for himself.
The fact that Sulphur Springs does
not have minimum adequate airport fa-
cilities may not mean much to a local resi-
dent who is not interested in flying. It is
extremely important to an industry which
must depend on air transportation.
Lack of modern hotel facilities is no
particular handicap to established resi-
dents with their own homes. It looms
pretty large in the minds of company ex-
ecutives who will have personnel travel-
ing in and out of their plant cities.
Unsightly conditions familiar to lo-
cal eyas can prove shocking to visitors.
Anderson's quotation of the reaction of
a Dallas industrial j location agent to
Main Street was a colorful statement of
the issues but one which has been
echoed too often by other visitors to
Sulphur Springs.
Anderson’s statement of the situation
was a necessary prelude to the Chamber
of Commerce’s renewed campaign to in-
terest new industries in locating iife£ul-
phur Springs. The ananimoun and pimta- usual Sunday sermon text, the letters pro
takeable verdict of experts in this field
all over the country is that the town which
does not think enough of itself to offer
attractive, up - to - date living facilities
hasn’t much chance of surviving the fierce
competition for new enterprise.
• • * •
Now that the case for Sulphur Springs’
most pressing needs haa been clearly and
vigorously stated, the next logical ques-
tion is wjhat can be done about the situa-
tion within the bounds of reason.
The airport issue is coming to an im-
mediate head in the effort to finance the
local share of an expansion program al-
ready approved by the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, which has agreed to con-
tribute $11,700 to the development.
This opportunity to nail down on* of
the top community deficiencies is too
valuable to pass by, whatever may be
necessary to arrange the local financ-
ing. A decent airport is a must for city
progress.
The hotel-motel project necessarily is
one which must be carried out as a pri-
vate operation. Plans are in the making
for a possible excellent solution to the
problem. The Chamber of Commerce and
other agencies should give every possible
encouragement now and be prepared to
do a real promoting job when the time
come.
The moat difficult of the three pro-
posed project* because of its far-flung
nature is that of modernization and im*
provement of the downtown area. Jt also
i$ an extremely important issue from the
standpoint of selling Sulphur Springs. A
top factor in the appraisal of any town is
the appearance of its business district.
There is no room for mistake here. One
of the reasons given by General Motors
for its refusal to put a plant in an Indiana
city was that the town's downtown dis-
trict looked as though it bad not been
changed since 1900. This strikes close to
home here.
A few special problems exist in the
downtown situation in Sulphur Springs.
Any solution in these cases would require
special treatment that might involve un-
usual procedure and difficulties.
A great deal could be accomplish-
ed, however, through a well-planned
and well-executed campaign for build-
ing improvements, perhaps on a block-
to-block basis. Programs of this sort
have been carried out successfully in
other cities, and sufficient interest has
been shown in recent improvements
that have been made here to indicate
that much could be expected of such a
venture.
Experience has shown that there isn’t
anything wrong with Sulphur Springs that
cannot be remedied by enough work and
community spirit. Wonders have been ac-
complished in other fields in the past.
Now is the time to be tackling the “big
three” among present civic needs and
staying with them until they are whip-
ped.
*.*#•#
NOTES & COMMENT: Congratula-
tions to the Gafford’s Chapel community
on its triumph in the district Rural Neigh-
borhood Progress Contest. The folks out
northwest have done a wonderful job and
should be pushing hard for state honors.
, . . Despite Brook# Emmons’ insistence,
this department refuses to go along with
his labeling Of a June bug as a May beetle.
The pesky critters are June bugs, even
though they appear in April. ... It was
gratifying to see the women of the Pres-
byterian Church extend formal recogni-
tion to Malcolm Boyd’s long record of ser-
vice and accomplishment in the church.
His personal contribution to the welfare
and advancement of the church through
the years has indeed been tremendous. . .
Sneaking of churches, a local woman re-
visiting her former home town after a
long absence stopped to admire the out-
side of her old church. She was a little
startled by what she saw posted on the
outdoor bulletin board. Instead of the
claimed: “Every Family Tree Has Some
Sap In It." Not a bad idea at that.—FWF.
Paint conceals the year* better on a gal than
on an auto.
When wealth is mainly a state of mind you’re
likely to be the happiest.
We’ve often wondered why folks waste time
on people who are hard to please.
NtA Service, lac
MARKET MEMOS
Exodus to Country
Brings Big Changes
Digoot of BimIhu A Financial
Tmil A Opinion*
EX-URBANIZATION
(Pert II)
"Just people moving nut of
cities and into the country,” was
the simple and superficial defini-
tion of “ex-urbanisntion” which
wa gave you lant week.
What wa underlined waa that
this movement Af people* away
from the cities has never happen-
ed before in the history of man.
From 6-6000 B. C., when a man
first began building villages in
the Near East, up to almost 20
years ago, the country man has
always been moving to the cities.
It would be amazing to see a
river that’s flowed west for 8,000
year* suddenly start to flow east.
Just at surprising is this reversal
in an 8,000 year old social trend.
Alley Spark Trend
It was the automobile, mass
produced for a mass market, that
made possible the trend to the
land, but it was the change in
man’a basic values that motivated
him to choose to leave the city
for the country.
We went into all this last week
but we’re repeating it because
few of us realize the potentials
of this social evolution.
How this change in way of liv-
ing will affect us, inside, alter
ancient patterns of thought, atti-
tudes, values, no one can foresee
fully. All we can do hare is to
point out that what we’re seeing
is • deeply significant cultural
change and to call attention to
aome of its more obvious conse-
quences, economic, social, politi-
cal and psychological.
First, economic. The migration
to the country is the greatest dy-
namic force jn our economy. You
don’t have to be an economist
to understand what ex-urbaniza-
tion means in terms of construc-
tion: Homes, roads, schools,
churches, hospitals, stores, fac-
tories—the list is almost endless.
Nor is it hard to figure what it
will mean in terms of more em-
ployment All this ia obvious.
Buying Habits Chang*
Loss apparent but at least
equally important is the perman-
ent change in habita of buying
and owning. The city man rents
his home, owns no car but travels
on the subway, bus or taxi, and
eats in restaurants. Clothes and a
few places of furniture are his
possessions.
Contrast this with the home-
owner. His home and ground are
just the beginning. He needs and
must have everything that the
city dweller doesn’t have. One
car is essential; soon he needs
two. Inside, the home seems to
swallow heavy appiiances like a
starving shark and the garden
rur.s a close second to the house.
The former city renter is now a
property owner.
Ownership affects the ex-urba-
nite in various ways.
More Work Needed
First, he works harder. . .he
has to. He’s usually young with
little cash savings and buys
everything “on time.” Though his
income is above the city average,
the monthly installments eat np
nearly all his earnings. Result, ho
works longer hours and overtime
and his wife gets a job as soon
as the children are old enough for
school, U not sooner.
Sin*® installment payments
come every month, 12 months a
year, he must have steady work.
Steady work is tiad to full era
ployment and full employment he
must have to protect his poasea-
rions. No government that fails
to provide full employment can
Washington—(NEA)—Central Intelligence Afpongy k I# *****
old this fall. The past year haa been the busiest of Its short career,
due to the crises jn Poland, Hpngary and the Middle Edit.
Some harsh things have baa* sail about CIA in this period. There
have been congressional criticism* an estimates af Aoviet bomber
strength. President Eisenhower, Secretory ef State John foster Dul-
les and their top aids* have boon reported without advuaut reports
on the British, French and brae* plan to at** W jTf J
CIA Director Allen W. Dulles is in the position of not being able
to answer attacks on intelligence failures.
Rut the observation can ha made thgt even when IntelUgsnes
estimates are avallabla, the information in them may M b# passed
oa or impressed oa officials most vitally coneoraed.
This has been the groat tailing of U. S. intelligence work all
along. Accurate intelligence reports were made before the Japs
struck Pearl Harbor. The information just wasn’t property evaluated
and passed on to the right people.
Similarly, U. S. Intelligence fell down when the Chineae Com-
munists struck across the Ynlu River in 1950. Gen. Waiter BedtU
Smith, who took over as fourth head ef CIA in October of that year,
ordered a complete overhaul of the agency.
He was tough and ruthless about it He elsanod out many of the
extra hands hired in a harry af the apart of th* NX. The rich boys
and girls who played at intelligence—the Georgetown cocktail aot
were let go. Tighter security was imposed.
Then General Smith asked Allen Dulles, who hod headed a three-
man commission to study reorganisation of CIA, to come ia for a few
weeks and put his recommendations into offset.
Dulles has been at CIA ever since. He became General Smith's
deputy, then his successor in 1953.
In the past four years, CIA ha* changed quite a lot Its budget,
number of employes and their operations still remain secret.
But it has built up a career service of intelligence expert*—
something the United States has nevar had before. Today CfA hat
literally hundreds of intelligence officers to cover the vast Soviet ef-
fort in the cold war.
College graduating classes are now systematically combed each
Jung for h°aot students in languages, economics and science. But
tests and training requirements.
The pay is $3,006 for beginners up to $14,000 for 35 top ana-
lysts. Director Dulles gots $21,000. It isn’t the pay that holds the
“best educated working force in Waskington” together.
It’s the interest in the work. Dulles sets the pace by practically
living his job, seven days and sights a week. He wouldn’t do anything
else if he could.
He has worked out a good relationship with Congress. The drive
for a congressional watchdog, committee for CIA waa killed last jraar.
Dulles now clears his budget with th* seven senior members of con-
gressional appropriations committees. On top secret itema, the con-
gressmen say, “Don’t tell us.”
CIA after a struggle got 46 million dollars for its new headquar-
ters in Langley, Va., a few miles up the Potomac from Washington.
This will replace the 88 buildings CIA now occupies—11 of thorn
World War I and II temporaries.
So gradually, CIA is becoming an established service. Its mem-
bers now say that it is hotter than British intelligence, which need
to be considered tops. CIA is also said to b* as good a* the Russtaas.
stay in power.
We’ll continue this next week.
—K. H. ItSAFT.
Copyright 1967.
Power Increases
In Car Engines
Nears Climax
Detroit, May 11 IA—Authori-
tative talk in the automobile In-
dustry haa it that the convention-
al auto engine may be approach-
ing its top horsepower output.
The coming modal yegg may
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
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**e some power increases In en-
gines in the lew and medium pric-
ed cars. Blit further boosts in the
horsepower of the top price lines
is unlikely. Currently, donee of
them boast engines with 125
horsepower.
The auto makers have doaied
any intent toward mart promo-
tion in a horsepower raco. They
contend the increase* have been
necessary to attain smoother op-
eration aad provide th* extra en-
ergy needed to operate merfmul
more power-actuated accessories.
One factor in the reported de-
cision to quit raising the horse-
power may he fewer poortbk ad-
vances ia compression ratios. The
higher compression engines need
better fuel. But seme automotive
and petroleum engineers see a*ch
raties getting near the point of
diminishing returns. In ether
words, the guiaa frum compres-
sion «re nut equal to the added
costa of providing the increased
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New Production Set
This coming Wednesday will
see the end of a production run
of a top car. Ford’s Continental
Mark<2 will become history, with
3,000 of the prestige autos off
the assembly lines in th* year*
they hyvt been made.
A Mark-3 is to be introduced in
the autumn. The Mark-2 rax waa
tp have ended with June. But
Ford officials *ay the fete wa.
advanced to hast space to pro-
duce th* now feedak.
Teacher Sued
For Spanking
Houston. May 11 (A—A school
teacher who spanked an aloven-
year-old girl last year has been
named defendant to a $10,250
dqmage suit in Houston.
C. O. Frasier of Mount Hou-
rwt ***** Un Juanita
Durr of th* East Houston tlumni
NTjwbnrt tmise spanked his
dnwrttar. Dark, with her hands
and a large board.
Mn. Duff aayg aha used a thin
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boy students from an of# fruit
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 112, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 12, 1957, newspaper, May 12, 1957; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth830421/m1/10/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.